Israel has stopped attacking Hezbollah targets in Beirut, Lebanon, at the request of U.S. President Joe Biden, according to media reports. For the past four weeks, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has targeted Hezbollah bunkers and operatives in Beirut, primarily in the southern area of Dahiyeh. The campaign has been highly successful, killing most of the senior leaders of the terrorist organization and throwing it into disarray. @patrician More unbelievable news. I have to keep reminding myself that the Lord can and will handle this. But it just seems all so nonsensical at the moment. Amir Tsarfati, Oct 14: The government of India was one of a small number of “global south” nations absent on a list of signatories to a letter released this week condemning Israel for declaring the head of the United Nations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, persona non grata. The Indian newspaper The Hindu reported on Sunday that the letter, circulated by Chile, boasted 104 signatory countries at the time of its publication, asking Israel to reconsider banning Guterres from the country out of respect for the U.N. as an institution. The ban, the letter read, “undermine[s] the United Nations’ ability to carry out its mandate, which includes mediating conflicts and providing humanitarian support.” “As member states of the United Nations, we call for respect for the UN’s leadership and its mission,” the letter continued. “We reaffirm our full support and confidence in the Secretary General and his work.” The Hindu observed that some of India’s closest allies, including BRICS partners China and Russia, signed the letter, as well as European states including France and Switzerland. On the list of those abstaining from participating in the letter were America, Israel’s top ally, as well as Japan and South Korea. The Israeli government announced in early October that it would ban Guterres from the country in response to his lack of condemnation of Iran for a massive missile barrage against Israel. The Israeli Foreign Ministry noted that Guterres did not directly identify Iran as the aggressor. “Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as nearly all the countries of the world have done, does not deserve to set foot on Israeli soil,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said at the time. The action culminated nearly a year of tensions between Guterres, the greater United Nations apparatus, and the nation of Israel following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The Indian government has been much more unequivocal in condemning Hamas and radical Islamic terrorism since the attack, lending clear support to Israel. “People of India stand firmly with Israel in this difficult hour,” Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a statement shortly after the attack. “India strongly and unequivocally condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.” “The Indians always remind us that Israel was there for them during the Kargil War,” Carmon told YNet. “Israel was one of the few countries that stood by them and provided them with weapons. The Indians don’t forget this and might now be returning the favor.” India’s lack of support for jihad prompted Iran’s “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to declare India an “enemy of Islam” in a statement in September.
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